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Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus

Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus - Lambic - Fruit

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 Percentile 
93
overall
Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit

Brussels, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
6933.62/5.03.62/5.05%67.1Flute, Tumbler
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Commercial Description:
"It has the colour of onion skin", said a voice behind me. It was Raymond Coumans. He was admiring the colour of the raspberry lambic reflecting in the red copper of the buckets used to empty the barrels. At that time (1986), "Raspberry-Lambic" already was synonymous with a sweet, artificially flavoured beer. This is why we decided to distinguish our beer from the other raspberry beers. Raymond proposed to call it a rosé, dedicated not to Bacchus but to Gambrinus.

The process to make this beer is identical to the one to make Kriek. When young, the Rosé de Gambrinus will still present its full fruity taste. Later on, the lambic taste will become dominant at the expense of the fruit taste.

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 jason (1620), Easton, Pennsylvania, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/105/514/20
Mar 18, 2007  
Bottle 2006 Poured a deep pinkish red body with very thin head. Aroma is of sour beeries, horseblanket, and an odd resembleness to cranberries. Flavor is slight sour, lightly fruity with the raspberries having a small presence, but overall having a light body and ton( I got the sence of a watery drink sometimes). I have to admit though the more I drank it the more it really grew on me. Very nice aftertaste. Would like to try again after many years of cellaring.


 JK (2946), Richfield, Minnesota, USA
4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/105/518/20
Mar 17, 2007  
Tasted at Cantillon, Brussels. A very sour aroma with barnyard and sour characteristics, as well as light fruit. Sour raspberry flavor. Clearly natural raspberry. A red beer and heavily carbonated. Yeasty aftertaste. Outstanding.


 reakt (938), Greater London, England
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/516/20
Mar 10, 2007    Updated: Sep 2, 2007
Bottle from Uto. Apricot colour with no head. Nose of sour berries, vinegar, orange and honey. Taste of raspberries, lemons and grapes...A raspberry lemonade geueze so to speak. Medium bodied, mouth-watering tart and acidic mmmm...Just my style.


illkarate (89), Bloomington, Indiana, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/57/103/515/20
Mar 10, 2007  
Poured a reddish gold, definitely settles as a rose. Virtually no head. Aroma of hay, alcohol, hints of fruitiness. Relatively complex taste - once you get past the first sour blast. Raspberries, lemons, green grapes and wood. This is the way a lanbic should taste... not Lindemans


 JohnnyJ (1283), Carlsbad, California, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Mar 5, 2007    Updated: Mar 9, 2007
2005 bottle. Pour is a hazy orangish red with little to no head. Aroma of barnyard funk, tartness, lemon, and a little bit of raspberries. Flavor is very tart and sour. Mostly lambic funk flavor with notes of fruit.


 robinvboyer (1419), Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, Canada
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/515/20
Feb 28, 2007  
a nice lambic, cantillon doesn’t really make anything that isn’t nice. Nice sourness, nose is of lemon, and citrus, and very tart. overall good, but not spectacular


 Glouglouburp (2778), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/518/20
Feb 27, 2007    Updated: Nov 6, 2007
Cloudy golden red body with almost no head. Aroma is dominated by typical gueuze/kriek wilderness and not a lot of the advertised raspberries. So far so good. Actually so far, excellent. This is a fruity gueuze alright but not all that much raspberry-fruity. High sourness and acidity level with a fruity taste that I’d describe as more “seedy” than the more common krieks with a dry a rough finish. Body is a bit oily for the style and the bubbles are few but aggressive. Not a match for the 3 Fonteinen Framboos (the reference for the style?) but a worthy contender nonetheless. I never though I’d say that but I whish my hairy smelly drinking buddies would buy me a Rose once in a while.


 PilsnerPeter (2598), Flushing, New York, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Feb 23, 2007    Updated: Apr 1, 2009
Bottle - 2005: Pours a nice hazy rusty red color with a vanishing head. Aroma is intense barnyard, some musty wood, and plenty of active culture funk. The base beer funkiness gives it lots of complexity. The raspberry is somewhat subtle and never masks the nuance of the base lambic. I’ve been meaning to re-rate this.



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